Israel, Returning to the Homeland - reminiscent of the days of Apartheid in South Africa - by Susan Nathan
"Inside the information pack from the Jewish Agency office in London was a badge and an accompanying letter. “Wear this as you walk off the plane to begin your new life as an Israeli citizen,” the instructions stated.
On some days I felt tearful and isolated. I cried not out of fear, but out of a terrible sense of how much my country was failing not just its Arab citizens but also its Jewish ones — and how catastrophically fragmented it was growing. In this sense, the sophistication of the West increasingly appears to me to be a veneer, concealing the fact that most of us have lost our understanding of where our communities are heading.Listening to — and coming to understand the Palestinian narrative was an important part of unlearning my lifelong Zionist training, which had dismissed the Palestinians’ history and culture as irrelevant or nonexistent.
The book "The other side of Israel" by Susan Nathan is available from Amazon at: http://www.Amazon.com
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